another documentary

[lauralh]

We watched One Day In September, which is about the terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic teams in Munich in 1972? I belive that's the year. Anyway it was so fucking depressing and saddening. They interview the remaining surviving Palestinian terrorist, and I'm not ashamed to say that I wished the director had shot him after filming him. It's funny, as Reg and I were talking about how different we are in cynicism realms. I mean, he's not significantly more cynical than I am, except subconsciously I do have that one moment impulse of "oh my god no!" before I react out loud with "well of course." Whereas he claims not to because of his shitty life. I'm just too sensitive I guess.

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my first laugh of the day

[perich.livejournal.com]

I'm not ashamed to say that I wished the director had shot him after filming him

"You didn't read the release form, did you?" BLAM!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Do you know that the Israeli secret police let one guy live on purpose just so they can keep him scared. They kind of made it clear to him that they could come for him any time and do what they did to the rest.
The whole story of how the Israeli commandos went after them reads like a Charles Bronson Deathwish film.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

woah. That's great.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Israeli commandos make most of the CIA operatives seem like Boss Hogg.

[kosub.livejournal.com]

I had thought Israel got them all. Clearly I was wrong.

One of the best stories to come out of the whole aftermath of that was how a young Ehud Barak -- yes, that Ehud Barak -- stole ashore in Lebanon disguised as a woman to personally execute three of the terrorists responsible. It's such a bizarre tale that it seems like fiction, and yet it happened.